An outline is a preliminary plan about What - Why - How.

What: What will be discussed/analyzed/explored in this paper?

Why: Why is it interesting/important to do so? What are the intended managerial implications? What can the reader gain from it?

How: How will it be presented: What structure.

For example:

Part 1 introduces the case, the problem, the situation, and states the purpose of the assignment, such as solving a problem or understanding a situation better to make better decisions, or something like that. And why is it important? For who? What to do with the results from this paper?

Part 2: briefly presents academic literature that shall be consulted discussing the issues of the case/problem/situation.

Part 3: presentation of case of data.

Part 4: Analysis or discussion with support of academic literature.

Part 5: Conclusions, suggestions, implications for management.

Before there is no clear idea what is the purpose of writing about a topic writing the paper should not be started, otherwise it ends up with a lot of work but a meaningless list of statistics or references.

Please make yourself familiar with the usefulness of a good outline.

Much success,

Dr.

When writing your scholarly paper, please note the following guidelines:

Select a topic that interests you and is related to the contents of this course. Write no less than 2000 words scholarly paper (excluding the title page, bibliography and appendices) on this topic. Please e-mail your professor an outline of this paper, prior to starting it. In addition to your primary text, you are required to use a minimum of 10 additional references from professional journals and books to produce your scholarly paper.